Looking good

Have you considered Hellix....just a thought if your having probs!!

 

no problem stu, i do not blame you for the delay at all.

 

i have not really heard nuch about helix,
what are they like?

 

thanks for linking me to this Stu.. looks very impressive


cant wait for you to make a start on mine!

 

just picked my engine up
chuffed as punch, hopfully back in over weekend

 

Its true you dont hear much about them, Im not sure why they arent more popular.

There paddle cluches are excelent, mine has plenty of bite left in it and has had heaps of abuse.

 

Cool bet you cant wait to get it run in and see 'Just how much power you have' hope everything go's smoothly

 

cant wait to get it back on road, the Alcon Clutch turned up so no problems there,
going to start putting it back in tonight and hopefully carry on for over
the weekend.

 

 

Stunning engine rebuild. Meticulous.

 

worked on it till 1 in morning last night got the majority done, since the poly
bushes aint turned up yet its going on road without them and they will have to be
fitted at a later date, just going to go make a start again now

 

Is it done yet?

 

ITS BACK ON THE ROAD EVERYBODY, YESSSSSSSSSSSS

 

Pics Pics

 

she needs a wash yet and some things to put back on, like grill,
timing belt cover etc. and i want to do first oil change whilst its nice so will get
some up for about 5ish tonight hopefully.

 

Not too hot on the pics eh Andy?

I can do it if you wanna bob round one day this week and il take a few for ya

 

i ended up tidying the garage out for 3 hours on sunday now that everything is accesable so did not have time, been really busy, working till 6 so only getting home for 6.15 and starting to go dark, i think it is going to have to be this weekend for some pics unless i try get
away at 5 tomorrow night.
326 miles done

 

There you go people, chuffed as punch

 

there a bit small, oops

 

 

one of the leather,
how long before i get pulled of the 5,0 with that number plate

 

lovely mate!! the wheel look the nuts i havnt seen many s1 with seven spokes!!

 

Looks wicked mate you should be chuffed! The wheels totally suit the series 1

 

cheers, may be swapping the wheels yet, depends on if i can sort out the scrubbing
it scrapes on rearr mudflap where it mounts to arch.

 

car getting final map today, so picking it up at about 4 i think,
will let you all know how its gone and how she goes

 

picked it up at 4, its quick, had a cheshire cat smile all the way home

 

 

Everything ok with it?

 

He's prolly so happy with it that small trips to the shop taken 2 hours

 

man that thing cleaned up nicely... great work on everything as well

any of you guys want to say trade 2.0 spi cvh's for say rst goodies? import for export, so to say

 

bradsescort: what you after?

 

yeah bang on, the alternator was loose when i took it to MSD
but its all sorted now, lot better now than before, pulls so well

 

good question mainly valvetrain stuff (double valve springs and solid lifter kits, and possibly turbo grind cams for higher boost levels)

also was curious on your lowerend side of things you guys have.. like tie rods, crankshafts (although ours stock have seen 300+hp), and misc stuff

also oil sumps, for the cvh that work well with any type of return line.. and possibly an oil sump that has a low oil return thus increased total oil capacity?

i have a lot of questions but since i posted last night a lot of q's have been answered, checkout the thread in my sig on this site

sorry for the hijack
-brad

we could trade/swap/throw money back for these random or other rst items for say 2000cc spi heads that have huge intake and exh valves, or anything you guys want is possible... the engines here were detuned (management and fi side) and massively produced, so they are very common in the jy ( i swapped out my 1.9 sequential electronic fuel injection (sefi) cvh for a 2.0 split port induction (spi) cvh.. picked her up an hour drive away, engine had 40k on it got it for $250 (eh ~200 ur currency?) could also send you 2.0 block but that's pretty heavy stuff... seems like you guys have something of that nature with the 2.0 zetec block since it was designed from the cvh.. we also have logstyle ihi manifolds off the 80s egt turbo and exp's, you can boltup ihi series turbo's (with the square flange) but this is more of a downgrade for yall... countless other things i cant think of right now that might be of some use to you guys as well

we'll work something out, ask me anything i will have or find your answer

later

 

Excelent!

 

cheers darren, andy walters mentioned you would like my old oil pump?

 

If I could please mate. I need to lok at a few things on it and measure a few thread sizes so I can hatch my plans for mine.

 

i will put it in my car for when i next see you, if i dont see you any time this weekend/monday, i will give it to andy

 

I'll be out and about this weekend.

 

i will b out tonight in my mates cossie, if i see you i will
give it you then

 

Cheers!